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Most mentors I've run into have been in some kind of dying trade, like computer repair, where they're so broke that they have to say, "We need you to work for free, but in exchange, we'll give you experience." If it's a thriving trade, they're too busy making money hand over fist to be establishing mentorship programs; in order to meet the demand, they will bring people on for on-the-job training at full pay, and they don't make a big deal about how they're training you, because in actuality, you're doing a lot of self-training since everyone is too busy to train you. There's a heavy reliance on talent rather than trainability; that's what they mean by being a self-starter. You pick stuff up without having to be taught it.
Anyway, I was asking someone recently why it is that there are people who have been speaking English for years and still make a lot of mistakes. He said that some people may just lack talent.
I sometimes wonder if I'm that way, with regard to French. Idk, I think the main problem is, it's hard to find people who are willing to put much more than a token effort into training others in French. To the extent people are perfectionists about it, their attitude is, "Just don't speak French unless you can do it perfectly." It doesn't take the form of trying to relentlessly correct them and explain the underlying rules and so on so they understand.
It's hard to find a combination of a reasonably talented and motivated student, and a competent and conscientious mentor. https://vintologi.com/threads/its-kind-of-hard-to-mentor-people.530/
Anyway, I was asking someone recently why it is that there are people who have been speaking English for years and still make a lot of mistakes. He said that some people may just lack talent.
I sometimes wonder if I'm that way, with regard to French. Idk, I think the main problem is, it's hard to find people who are willing to put much more than a token effort into training others in French. To the extent people are perfectionists about it, their attitude is, "Just don't speak French unless you can do it perfectly." It doesn't take the form of trying to relentlessly correct them and explain the underlying rules and so on so they understand.
It's hard to find a combination of a reasonably talented and motivated student, and a competent and conscientious mentor. https://vintologi.com/threads/its-kind-of-hard-to-mentor-people.530/